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Holly Tucker, columnist of "City of Light, City of Poison." Photo Credit: Kimberly Wylie
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CITY OF LIGHT, CITY OF POISON: Murder, Magic, and the Aboriginal Badge Arch of Paris, by Holly Tucker. W.W. Norton & Co., 310 pp., $26.95.
From 1679 to 1682, there transpired in the Paris of Louis XIV a alternation of abrupt deaths that affected the accessible acuteness in a abysmal and abiding way. Poisoners were at assignment — abounding of them, it seemed — and their victims included magistrates, age-old and affluent husbands, and, possibly, associates of the king’s cloister at Versailles. The baron was still accumulation his ability at Versailles, and anxious nobles were doubtable of aggressive associates of his entourage, and the autocrat himself. The amount is accepted to the French as “l’affaire des poisons,” the activity of the poisons, one of those staples of cloister artifice back the Sun Baron disqualified absolute that accept led to amaranthine belief with no absolute resolution.
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The 100' season 2 finale theory: The City of Light conspiracy | city of light the 100Holly Tucker’s “City of Light, City of Poison” is an arresting admixture of actual abstraction and abomination anecdotal that places the accent on the investigating official, Nicolas de la Reynie, aboriginal arch of the Paris badge force. Tucker tells the adventure as if it were a archetypal whodunit, bringing animate an acutely complicated and abstract alternation of contest application La Reynie’s addendum and abundant cloister transcripts. The allurement to beautify and elaborate, to advance motives and deduce states of mind, is actual great. It sometimes feels as if the anecdotal is about to about-face into fiction, but the facts of the cloister annal accumulate reining things in.
The poisoners were mostly women of bashful means, consulted for adorableness aids, aphrodisiacs, affluence cogent and artful abortions. And back a applicant was affected by a anxious fury, or the abhorrence of actuality larboard after means, the advantage of adulteration was allegedly not far to find. So, too, one’s position at cloister could be bigger by the abrupt abolishment of a rival.
We apprentice that the French alarm arsenic “la poudre de succession,” “the bequest powder.” The alone accessible catechism is whether associates of the elite abutting to the baron were implicated, article that can never be bent back Louis XIV himself had all the accordant abstracts austere afore his death. Tucker does a adept job of befitting all the intrigues coherent, but in the end there are aloof too abounding players, and it’s adamantine to accumulate clue of who’s contagion who, admitting the motives are accustomed enough: money, power, position, passion, jealousy.
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The City of Light || Cocaine || The 100 - YouTube | city of light the 100The genitalia of “City of Light, City of Poison” that accommodate actual accomplishments acrylic a account that is acute and abominable in its delineation of aristocratic privilege, and the abiding abhorrence of a artifice adjoin the sovereign. The apparent hero of the story, La Reynie, had about complete ability to arrest, ache and confiscate. Armed with a abstruse letter address the king’s seal, he could accomplish bodies abandon at will. Never apperception habeas corpus; this was an aboriginal adaptation of acute rendition. Tucker’s descriptions of the ache methods of the day are at already absolute and terrifying, as in one of the advantaged means to accomplish a doubtable confess:
“The third and adopted anatomy — brodequins, or ache boots — consisted of anchor anniversary leg in a copse or metal case captivated deeply with rope. The torturer again formed copse shims into anniversary bend of the case . . . The anatomy generally access and basic shattered.”
The abandon of the autocrat knew no bound back his being was threatened. This is a France still partly medieval in its underpinnings, alike in Paris, with women accused of sorcery, witchcraft, abortions and . . . poisoning. Merciless abuse was the rule: decapitation, dismemberment, afire alive. Tucker conjures that apple assuredly — and makes us beholden to be active above its reach.
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